Val Kilmer Quotes

I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.

I get so many scripts a day but none of them inspires me. If I get a good inspiring script, then I will be most happy to make it into a film.

Research can be interesting, but it can be pointless as well. The realities of making a movie often are not conducive with that. I'm not knocking it. I love doing research myself, but I admit it doesn't always add to the performance.

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.

I don't read that many books - I tend to read scripts for projects.

When there's a good script, everybody circles.

I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.

I used to hang out with a group of aspiring directors before 'Pizza' happened. We used to discuss a lot of stories all the time.

Whenever I hear the narration for a new film, I have this process back home where my mother reads all my scripts.

For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.

I see myself directing, writing, doing my own TV shows and movies.

In Hollywood, they create banks of scripts, whether they are used or not.

I started out working as a script editor and storyliner.

I would love to have more original material developed. 'Pacific Rim' has made that slightly more possible.

I've done a lot of movies, and you really never know. You do a movie and you think that it's great, and then you see it and it doesn't work.

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

You cannot live in Los Angeles for any period of time without eventually trying to write a screenplay. It's like a flu bug that you catch ... Even the plumber has a screenplay in his truck.

Making a movie is like making an ocean voyage, and the script is your ship.

I have a couple ideas that I'm banging on for a film. It's strange, you make a movie and, all of a sudden, your agents are calling you and saying, "Hey, I know these guys with some money who are looking to finance something." You're like, "Oh, god, now I've gotta come up with something really amazing."

Certainly, for me, and it's gone this way on every project I've worked on, the "writing" never ends until you're done with the movie.

For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex.